About Me

As an author, I draw on many real life experiences to provide background for my books. After completing studies in Literature and History at Occidental College, I became a staff writer on a travel magazine, and throughout my career I have traveled extensively all over the world.

Marilyn at home

Because I love horses, I owned and trained them. I support horse rescue and wild mustang preservation. Based on my experience with horses and my research on abuse issues, I wrote “Pegasus”. As a descendant of James Monroe, I did research at the James Monroe Museum in Virginia about him and his wife Elizabeth Kortright Monroe. I also visited their home, Ashlawn/Highland in Albemarle County. This resulted in my novel, “The Beautiful American”. My women’s fiction book “Making Wishes” was based partly on my experiences as creator, owner and operator of a greeting card company.

Marilyn at work

My books are published by Author House and sold worldwide by Amazon, Barnes & Noble and major bookstores as hardcover, paperback or ebooks.

Marilyn’s Books

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Suburban mother of two boys, Elloree Prince, makes a decision to return to work. Her decision changes her life for ever.

Elizabeth and James Monroe rescue Madame Lafayette from guillotine in Paris.

Compelling story of horse rescue. A tale of mystery, adventure and romance guaranteed to catpture the heart.

A surprise phone call, an unexpected bequest, and a mysterious portrait send wealthy entrepreneur and art collector Charles Brentworth on a perilous quest. With the help of attractive cosmopolitan art dealer Courtney Trent, he searches for the identity of the young woman in the antique portrait titles simply Lady J. Their puzzling pursuit leads them to London, the English Cotswolds, and into a dangerous web of art fraud in a shadowy art underworld. As they uncover clues to Lady J’s identity, they discover an unsolved murder, art heists, and forged paintings. Their findings catapult them into a desperate race against time to prevent the theft of a valuable art collection and finally lead them to solve the riddle of their treasured, enigmatic Lady J.